A week packed full of work.
But I was enjoying it. Most things went quite smoothly. Check out below what I did.
The week starts again off with posting the blog article. Are two mondays posting in a row already consistency? In the end it is super chill if I have already checked posting the blog article on monday. It would be similarly nice to pre-produce some TikToks for next week, but I don’t have a clue how this would be possible. Maybe some idea sparks me soon. Speaking of TikTok. These are my views on my “new TikTok” formats:
On monday my balance sheet says:
- three TikToks created
- sent out newsletter in the evening
Oh and I discovered the useMutation hook: https://medium.com/@emiklad/a-beginners-guide-to-react-query-tanstack-v5-part-4-the-usemutation-hook-d24312bf952c. Pretty cool to have learned something again with which I can from now on write better code.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be calm on the coding front. I will do sports in the morning and on the evening coding is not the best for my mental health. But doing sports is essential to give my brain a break. I do not always adhere to this and sometimes feel like sports in the morning is chopping away from precious coding time, but I always feel better, have good ideas and more motivation to code afterwards. I also started on meditating again even though I mostly fall asleep during it, which you are not supposed to, but fuck what you are supposed to. It benefits me and I’ll just do it my way. Using the petite bamboo app for it since its premium membership is included in urban sports.
On the app front there are two things open I want to solve next:
- notifications
- searching user
and as I learned over the last 12 blog articles. Whenever I list some todos in this blog I will not do them and then feel bad that I lied and didn’t get them done. The complete opposite of what I want to achieve with this blog. Great. Still doing it!
My postcards came back
And I don’t know what to do with them. If you have any ideas. Let me know! I now have round about 150 of them.
Google Form
I updated lifeupdates privacy policy and created a google form so this link can be forwarded to beta testers to collect their eMail: https://forms.gle/YbrzTEM6Hsj1pm6m9 if e.g. friends want to use the app with their family as well or I want to promote it on TikTok.
And oh my god. On Thursday I recorded three TikToks and it took me soooo long I did not get to write a single line of code. But a written line of code without attention is worth nothing. So I’ll stick with TikTok.
Notifications
And I made the notifications work on LifeUpdate. Yes they worked before by manually adding a line to the notifications table. But you don’t want to do this for every notification that has to be sent out. So I added the logic that on every entry in the invitations table a new row gets added to the notifications table and by that users get notified if they have been invited to a new group. And secondly you want to know once an update from your side is due. So a pb_cron job in supabase checks the next_update_at column and adds lines to the notifications table for every users where next_update_at > now() is. Also sending out notifications. I furthermore improved the search, which was for now a simple one line change away from supabases textSearch(). With indexing and more sophisticated work the search can be improved further, but for the beta users should be able to find their friends.
Now is saturday and if I look back at this blog entry its crazy what I’ve done this week! I stuck with posting on TikTok every day as well! Oh and I completed my action items from above! So saying I’d do something here on my blog isn’t as doomed as I thought.
I’ll tell you next week what I did this saturday, but I am listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ek2akJbDGwand it is as always lovely 😉
See you next week! ✌🏽
Disclaimer: This blog is not AI polished. Not even corrected with ChatGPT. Raw from my techie brain trying to be artsy.